Tides of Vengeance Season 2 Week of January 22nd - Survival Guide Video

Blizzard has posted a recap of what is coming with Season 2 on January 22nd, as well as a survival guide video.\r\rThis Blizzard Season 2 preview covers the following content coming on the 22nd\/23rd:\rNew Raid Battle of Dazar'alor, featuring nine new bosses. We've just published our Dazar'alor Strategy Guides by FatbossTV. Class Guides are also updated for 8.1, with Dazar'alor-specific advice coming very soon!\rNew PvP Season, featuring improvements to earning loot, new rewards, and the return of Vicious Saddles.\rNew Mythic+ Season, featuring the new seasonal affix Reaping, as well as more expensive\/better Titan Residuum pieces and higher dungeon difficulties.\rAzerite Armor updates, including a 5th ring of traits on Season 2 gear.\rOverall +30 ilvl increase from gear rewards, Titanforge cap 425, and the return of Artifact Knowledge.\r\r\rThere are some other Season 2 updates not detailed in the blog, such as new profession reagents and new mounts, pets, and titles.\r\rWe've also documented everything going away with the start of Season 2, including rewards from Raids, M+, and PvP Season 1.\r\rThere\u2019s plenty to look forward to when Tides of Vengeance Part 2 goes live on January 22. Watch our Survival Guide to learn more. \r \rNew Raid: Battle of Dazar\u2019alor \r The Alliance will strike at the heart of the Zandalari empire\u2014while the defenders of the Horde will rally to their new allies\u2019 defense\u2014in an epic new raid, Battle of Dazar\u2019alor. This new raid provides both Horde and Alliance players with unique encounters for their faction\u2014along with the opportunity to play through events from the opposite faction\u2019s viewpoint. Learn more.\rPvP Season 2 Begins \r PvP Season 2 will begin and introduce an updated Conquest reward schedule, mounts, and gear. Players who earn 500 Conquest points in a given week through PvP activities including Arenas, Battlegrounds, and Assaults in War Mode will be still be able to choose a piece of gear from each week\u2019s selection; in addition, they\u2019ll now earn a Quartermaster\u2019s Coin, which can be collected and ultimately used to upgrade pieces from this season\u2019s Sinister Gladiator PvP set. Learn more.\rMythic Keystone Dungeon Season 2 BeginsThe new Mythic Keystone Dungeon season opens opportunities for new rewards and a new challenge with the new seasonal affix: Reaping. High-level Keystones will now summon Bwonsamdi, the Loa of Death, to wreak some spectral havoc upon players\u2019 dungeon run. As heroes kill enemies, the vanquished spirits will continue to linger in the mortal realm. At certain points throughout the dungeon, Bwonsamdi will resurrect these twisted souls, who will swarm the unfortunate adventurers in a final act of vengeance. (Blog coming soon.) \rAzerite Armor Updates \r With the release of Season 2, we\u2019re introducing new epic Azerite pieces from PvP Season 2, the Battle of Dazar\u2019alor raid, World Quest Emissaries, and from the Mythic Keystone vendor Thaumaturge Vashreen in Zuldazar and Boralus. These new items will have a fifth ring with additional new trait options. Learn more.\r Content Difficulty and Rewards Changes With a new season upon us and the Dazar\u2019alor raid dungeon opening, we wanted to share some additional information on the changes coming to a variety of dungeon and outdoor world encounters including increases to both difficulty and rewards.\r\r New Maximum Item Level: With great challenges come great rewards and the maximum possible item level will go up to 425.\r Battle for Darkshore Warfront:Battle for Darkshore rewards will also increase to 400 from both the outdoor boss and from Warfront quest that can be completed once per cycle. The difficulty of the Warfront will increase however, and the item level required to queue will increase to 335. These changes will go into effect after the current Warfront cycle has ended. Until that time, players will still receive Season 1 rewards.\r World Quest Emissary Rewards: World Quest Emissary weapon and armor rewards will also now scale up to 385 based on the player\u2019s own item level. Rewards from the original Battle for Azeroth Launch World bosses will remain at item level 355 to stay on par with Uldir.\r Dungeon Rewards and Difficulty: The difficulty of Heroic and Mythic dungeons will also be increase as follows: Normal\u2013340, Heroic\u2013355, and Mythic\u2013 370(baseline)\r Mythic Keystone Dungeons and PvP: During the first week of Season 2 Mythic Keystone Dungeon rewards will be capped at Mythic 6 quality (item level 385). PvP Season 2 end-of-match rewards will be capped at 385.\r Seals of Wartorn Fate: Seals of Wartorn Fate are not being reset and this same currency can be used for Battle of Dazar\u2019alor and Season 2 bonus rolls; the cap on how many can be held at once remains at 5.\r \rFor additional insights on these changes, read the developer forum post.

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Commento di Darkhay

blizzard....you tooked so long to release zandalari and kultirans that i not even interested on them anymore

Commento di Tombsv

on 2019-01-17T12:31:52-06:00

Oh, look. Even longer wait for the allied races! How fun! (02:40 of the video. )

Commento di Mappper

on 2019-01-17T12:34:13-06:00

Anyone know what weapon the Night Elf lady holding the Heart of Azeroth has on her back?

Commento di Drakvul

on 2019-01-17T12:35:28-06:00

Reaping and the Bwonsamdi "deal" are things I've wanted in mythic+ for a while. It feels thematic, and has a kind of zone-wide presence to it that most of the other affixes (like Infested) lack. I'm hoping that season 3 has an Azshara themed storm as its affix or something of that nature.\r\rCan't say I'm excited for the raid, it's no "kill a titan\/old god\/demon lord" type of deal. It's certainly no Lich King or Blackhand. I understand people wanted more small-scale type of threats, but I can't take Rastakhan or Jaina as serious threats when we've fought things far worse than either of them. I mean this physically, and character wise. Like, Rastakhan basically sits on his throne and does nothing that would need the Alliance to kill him except he's sort of allied with the Horde, and Jaina gets an entire story-arc where she cools down and becomes the "Let's be level headed about this and not kill everyone" person again. \r\rI'd be excited if we could get the allied races as soon as we complete the raid, but I think that's being withheld until 8.1.5. so apparently the Kul'Tirans are on good terms enough to participate in the raid and for Cyrus to be our overseas target finder, but not enough to play as them until whenever 8.1.5 drops, five+ months into the expansion. \r\rThat's not me complaining about allied races in general, I'm just airing out some of my grievances with this expansion and seeing what everyone else thinks about this raid and season 2.

Commento di thorr69

on 2019-01-17T12:42:40-06:00

Wow, the Allied Race whiners got in early. If only they knew how to read all that information we got months ago (Blizzcon) on when they were coming (8.1.5).

Commento di Arraya

on 2019-01-17T12:51:35-06:00

blizzard....you tooked so long to release zandalari and kultirans that i not even interested on them anymore\r\rSame

Commento di ZulGazarg

on 2019-01-17T12:52:50-06:00

Wow, the Allied Race whiners got in early. If only they knew how to read all that information we got months ago (Blizzcon) on when they were coming (8.1.5).\r\rWow, the whiners about whiners got in early. If only they understood why so many players feel such discontent and annoyance over Allied Races. They wanted first quarter numbers so they had us tow the line. Worse, can you remember how starry-eyed and excited we were? I know on some sites, we held giant polls t see what races we wanted most. (Way back then all we knew we were getting was Dark Iron and Zandalari I believe). The polls Forest Trolls had the highest votes followed by Ogres, then Mok'Nathol, then Mag'har, and I think only after that was the first Alliance race which was Jin'yu. I guess the orc players got theirs, but the list went on. We were al hopefull to play all manner of races.\r\rSo please, forgive those of us that had our excitement beaten down and eroded to the point of cynic headshaking complainers.

Commento di Toraidhe

on 2019-01-17T12:59:09-06:00

Anyone know what weapon the Night Elf lady holding the Heart of Azeroth has on her back?

Commento di Nihilatos

Anyone know what weapon the Night Elf lady holding the Heart of Azeroth has on her back?\r\rIt's available in the Waycrest Manor dungeon

Commento di Awesome1849

on 2019-01-17T13:19:32-06:00

I'm excited about the new fights of the raid but not sure about the story. I really REALLY feel the allied races are waiting on a slump in sales then they will put them out for the race change money. I don't blame Blizzard. I blame their daddy.\r\rHopefully they will do better by 8.2. Maybe daddy will stop making all the decisions and we'll get back to playing a decent game. I will still play the game no doubt but I'm playing it less and less for the first time since I've started.

Commento di ShadedAce

on 2019-01-17T13:48:02-06:00

Going to focus on what I have instead of what I don't. I look forward to the raid and to the added system, It is what it is children of the Horde.

Commento di Wolrajh

on 2019-01-17T14:23:48-06:00

No allied races? God, that's not even slow at this point. It's downright pitiful.

Commento di Neruk

on 2019-01-17T14:24:29-06:00

At least they didn't outsource Bellular to do their video for them.

Commento di Raynuru

on 2019-01-17T15:10:50-06:00

us Allied Race Communities are still holding out for more news. I mean we do look forward to Zandalari and Kul Tirans, altough we have known about them for almost over a year and know everything there is to know.\rTo some extend they are way overdue (especially when you look at the launch trailer).\rLet's hope the last 4 allied races won't be part of the "Next Expac Pre Order Bonus" like the very first 4 were.\r\rPersonally i am hoping for Vulpera, Sethrak, San'Layn, Ogres, Hozen Jinyu but since there are so far only 4 more Spots left on the Allied Race Character Screen we can hope that we find out more after 8.1.5 hits the live servers.\r\r-Raynuru (VHC)

Commento di Vanderz

on 2019-01-17T17:10:24-06:00

Not much for non-pvp\/raid players to get excited for, especially with no news about Allied Races. I was hoping they'd get them polished and out early; well "early" considering the official info on when they were supposed to release. The wait has already been too long.

Commento di Zeratule

on 2019-01-17T17:50:54-06:00

The only reason I'm even SLIGHTLY happy they are taking their time on Allied Race release is because I still need to farm a couple transmog weapons for my Zandalari Paladin and their drop rates are atrocious. lol \/sigh. 8.1.5 hopefully won't be more than a month or so into the raid, otherwise, the hype train for my pally will have turned into Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.

Commento di Rasengam

on 2019-01-17T18:06:04-06:00

Anyone know what weapon the Night Elf lady holding the Heart of Azeroth has on her back?

Blightreaper from WCM, dont know which version tho

Commento di selkie47

on 2019-01-17T19:57:28-06:00

Soooooo the zanda\/KT aren't available yet? Wake me up when I start to care. With every announcement, I get less and less interested.\r\rOh and don't forget if you are casual or only lfr so you can keep up with the story, the third wing is a month later than everything else so if blizz... in all their infinite wisdom.... has gated the zanda\/KT behind the last boss, hey guess what!\r\r^ utter fail if that's how its going to be